There have been a fair share of reality survivor shows that hone in on an adventurist drinking his or her own filtered urine to last another day; yet the waste water ingested by Bill Gates is something else entirely. Converted from sewer sludge, the waste water was made potable by a special machine, the Janicki Omniprocessor.
Backed by the Gates Foundation, the Janicki Omniprocessor is not only able to create drinkable waste water, but also electricity and sterile ash that can be used as fertilizer. The Verge writes, "More than 2.5 billion people on earth have no reliable access to clean drinking water, so the humanitarian implications of such a machine would be immense." It is just hard to imagine that waste water would taste remotely good.
Key Themes Behind This Trend
- Potable Waste Water
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Developing advanced water purification technologies to convert waste water into drinkable water.
- Janicki Omniprocessor
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Creating multi-functional machines that can convert waste water into drinkable water, generate electricity, and produce sterile ash for fertilizers.
- Clean Drinking Water Access
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Designing innovative solutions to provide reliable access to clean drinking water for the 2.5 billion people who currently lack it.
Where This Applies
- Water Purification Technology
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Developing advanced technologies and systems for purifying waste water and making it safe for consumption.
- Renewable Energy
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Exploring ways to efficiently generate electricity from waste water conversion processes.
- Agriculture and Fertilizer
- Disruptive innovation opportunity: Investigating methods to create high-quality sterile ash from waste water conversion that can serve as a sustainable fertilizer.
